News about Korean new media such as Internet and mobile tech but also on conventional media such as TV, radio, film and newspapers. Purpose of this blog is to function as reference material for a research project (2006-2009) on Korean media and new media, a part of the OED research group and funded by HS Foundation (see: Affiliations). Special thanks to research assistant Katja Heinonen who took care of the blog in 2007-2008.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Korea's WiBro mobile Internet technology will launch in the U.S., the world's largest mobile communications market, later this month.

Choi Gee-sung, president of Samsung Electronics' Telecommunication Network Business, said Tuesday that his company will launch a WiBro (called Mobile WiMAX in the U.S.) service in Washington D.C. and Baltimore in partnership with Sprint Nextel, a leading U.S. mobile operator.